my favourite outfit - "never again" edition

[leedy]

Another thread reminded me of my absolute favourite outfit when I was about 13 (circa 1985): slouchy grey boots, grey cord "baggies", grey anklewarmers, red knit batwing top, all topped off with grey plastic bead jewellery and a grey belt worn over the jumper. I thought I looked THE BUSINESS. I loved it to the extent that I remember telling my friend before going to a Youth Club disco that I would never be embarrassed by it - "70s clothes, flares and that, they're all ridiculous - but batwings and baggies just look great!"

Have you any favourite outfits of yore that you cringe at? Or think of fondly but would never wear again?

(Honourable mention for me also goes to various 90s clubbing outfits, including a silver lame crop top and a green fake fur jacket that looked like I'd skinned a Muppet for its pelt)

Floisme, magazines are the ones always telling us to "de-clutter". that is, magazines whose main source of revenue is adverts, that is, the side their bread is buttered is making sure we have to keep buying things.

In 2034 the people at the 2014 party will wear:

weird baggy loud print trousers with cuffs
play suits
horrible thin trousers that are basically tights, with jeans-stitching unconvincingly added

I like my 1983 look. I stand by it.

Huge Carol Decker-ish / Nicole Kidman-ish hair
truck loads of kohl and mascara
grey suede pixie boots
Grey dress with red trim and a petticoat (Chelsea Girl)

That's very true, vezzie.

actually that's more 1986. I wasn't allowed make up in 1983 ("This is so UNFAIR! I am not a CHILD!" flounce, door slam. Erm, actually, you are?)

We can always wear see-through leggings at the 2034/2014 party. With a cropped T shirt of course. Although not me - I'll probably be wearing a shroud by then

What a lovely reminiscing thread.

I was the bees knees in my bright pink and black check shirt and baggy trousers with DMs

I remember a year when everyone wore United Colours of Bennetton tops, shortly followed by those t-shirts that changed colour based on your body temperature.

I felt very old when jumper dresses and leggings came back in as I had done them once already.

I always wore whatever shirt I was wearing, tucked into my trousers or jeans. I LOVED those tight tops with that you clipped under the crotch, as you never had to be retucked....

My favourite one was brown with stripes and I loved wearing it with some brown trousers that had pockets and pleats...

I saw one of those tops recently, maybe they are making a comeback...

Nooooooooo, not the tops that were like babies' popper-under-the-nappy vests? I had one and hated it, though that was possibly because I was and am really long-torsoed and found it both uncomfortable (popper welts in the crotch, anyone?) and hard to fasten/refasten, especially after a few ales.

Love this thread!

Oh god, the 'body' . So unhygienic! Basically like leotards weren't they, worn with the obligatory 501s. Anyone else remember the shortlived craze for everything white, floaty hoodies, white jeans, white hi-tops etc. 1990 rocked!

I vividly remember my first mufti day at senior school (1982), wearing a Chinese print shirt, along with my red patent DMs. Also sporting one of those rats tail plaits at the back of my shaved hair. Jesus fucking Christ what did I think I looked like? Thought my hair would be like a cross between james dean quiff and a floppy new romantic style - I looked like bloody billie jean king.

Yes that's the ones Leedy. I tell you - they are about again.. .

Terrible to undo quick if you were bursting...

I liked them because it showed off my little waist..... I had one of them in those days.............

Talking about hair... I dyed my hair jet black bear in mind that I am ginger, light eyed and freckly, and had the block pattern shaved onto my head, so blocks of black hair at the back, and gelled back fringe.

Argh, my mother still has a photo about somewhere, she is too embarrassed to put it anywhere except in a hidden box ha ha...

leedy just seen your post about the old mans suit

I went through a stage of raiding my grandfather's wardrobe for trousers, shirts etc in mid 80s. Why did we all think we looked good as teenage girls wearing clothes built for large old men?!

highlighta a friend and I were talking about those the other day, reminiscing about how we used to borrow each others', and couldn't remember if we'd actually worn knickers with them or not. Ewww.

Body's have been "in" for a while now. Worn with those bum flashing thrush inducing denim shorts

Bialy . As teenagers my friend and I even shared clean I should add knickers if we ran short, so body sharing wouldn't have bothered us I am sure

Ah so they are back in again... sadly I don't have the waist, it would spend most of its up my arse, and well, lets just say the denim shorts wont be happening either ..........

Great memories Leedy.

I remember the white stockandbloomm - I had white levis, a white chiffon hoody with silver blobs on the back & white Air Jordans...

I remember aged 13 or so (about 1989) wearing denim shorts with black tights or leggings underneath, based entirely on seeing it in the fashion pages of Girl magazine.

My parents were so horrified at it that they refused to let me leave the house. My dad sat me down and lectured me about how dressing 'strangely' was incredibly disrespectful both to my family and to anyone else who would be forced to look at me. He really was quite angry (and he is a very mild mannered man).

It's weird to think that what upset them so much is such a standard non remarkable look today that children and teenagers all over the country wear it!

I embraced tie dye when I was a teenager. I remember with horror a particularly lurid pink and purple crushed velvet maxi length skirt, worn with black DMs, a black choker and black tassled top. I actually shudder. Then when I started clubbing I recall wearing an electric blue, zip up top in that shiny lycra material, worn with very tight black hipster trousers - if it was cold, I may have rocked a faux fur jacket. I am very pear shaped and must have looked utterly awful.

Heh, my parents just smiled and nodded whatever I left the house in, I think they figured experimenting with odd clothes/hair was a fairly safe teenagerism to indulge.

My own mum remembers her father asking her if she had "forgotten to put her skirt on" when she went out in her 60s micro-minis.

90s teen:

Ripped baggy jeans
Very tight top or "body"
DM boots, top 4 holes never laced.
A shirt with car paint sprayed on slung over the top.
Very short hair.
Eyeliner and no other makeup.
Topped off with copious amounts of cheap perfume - I had Charlie, my friend wore Fire & Ice.
Weirdly, this look was extremely attractive to the local teenage lads!

Oh yes, white chiffon hoody! I had a lovely sleeveless one, worn atop a body of course

And ripped jeans, not just ripped at the knee, but at the buttock so half your arse was hanging out. My friend and I got chased down a road in 1987 by an irate man shouting at us we were obscene! Which we were.

I totally pulled while rocking my old man's suit. I'm not sure what this says about teenage boys....

queen I embraced the tassel in the 80s too. The Bob Dylan/Doors getting stoned phase. Lots of black, purple, suede and tassels. Long fringed skirts and black plimsolls.

This thread is totally starting to give me clothing flashbacks. Why yes, I did spend about a year as an undergrad wearing a maternity dress even though I wasn't pregnant because it was cheap and I "liked the print".

Late 70/early 80s, skinhead phase- DMs of couse, rolled up skinny jeans- (called drainpipes then) , to show of the 18 holed boots, fred perry, braces and of course the red harrington jacket!! hair cut by a lad I fancied who made it look like crop circles!!! never a full skinhead but maybe less than an inch allover with a long fringe!!- My DGM was ill in hospital and my DM wouldnt let me go to vist 'looking like that'- MY DC dont believe me and we dont have any photos as my DM refused to take any! ha ha